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manding magnitude, and a variety equal to 

 the number, very few profpecls are finer thai* 

 this. 



From henceihe boundary plantation extends 

 fome miles to the weft and north-weft of the 

 domain, forming a margin to the whole of 

 different growths, having been planted, by de- 

 grees, from three to iixteen years. It is in 

 general well grown, and the trees thriven ex- 

 ceedingly, particularly the oak, beech, larch, 

 and firs. It is very well Sketched, with much 

 variety given to it. 



Pafs by the garden acrofs the river, which 

 murmurs over a rocky bed, and follow the rid^ 

 ing up a fteep hill, covered with wood from 

 fome breaks, in which the houfe appears per- 

 fedlly buried in a deep wood, and come out, 

 after a confiderable extent of ride, into the 

 higher lawn, which commands a view of the 

 fcenery about the houfe j and from the brow 

 of the hill the water, which is made to imitate 

 a river, has a good effect, and throws a great 

 air of chearfulnefs over the fcene, for from 

 hence the declivity below it is hid; but the 

 view, which is the moft pleafing from hence, 

 the fineft at Curraghmoor, and indeed one of 

 the moft ftriking that is any where to be feen, 

 is that of the hanging wood to the right of the 

 houle, rifing in fo noble a fweepas perfectly to 

 fill the eye, and Jeave the fancy fcarce any thing 

 to wiJli : at the bottom is a fmall femicircular 

 lawn around, which flows the river, under the 



immediate 



